A little success

Thanks for the emails and comments to help me with Emily. It's always encouraging to hear from fellow mothers. I plan to use the suggestions sent to me. Emily actually took a nap today! I told her that it was quiet time and that I would come get her in an hour . . . and when I went to check on her in an hour she was asleep. So I let her sleep another hour before opening her door to come out when she woke up. Of course tonight it took a little longer for her to go to sleep . . . but today was a much more pleasant day. When she woke up from her nap I told her we were going to a park to celebrate her staying in her room during nap time. So we found a park near a school. It didn't take long until Emily found a girl to go down the slide with:

It cracks me up how much she LOVES being around other children. She just loves running around with them and talking to them even if she isn't really a part of their activity. This little girl actually did play with her today.

Yesterday we went for a walk around the neighborhood and some older girls were walking around as well. She told me she needed to wait for her friends to catch up with us so she could talk to them and play with them. Bless her heart . . . too bad she wasn't born into a family that has a bunch of kids . . . she would LOVE it : )

We also focused on potty training a lot more today and Emily had 2 successes . . . still a bunch of accidents including completely soaking her bed today while she was playing (and I didn't discover the wet bed until she started to climb into the bed for her nap) . . . but I felt like she was making more of a connection today with what was going on during accidents . . . so keep praying for success. I didn't feel as stressed out about this today.

In Abigail news . . . . I didn't see the girl's eyeballs until about 8:00 tonight . . . she has slept ALL DAY TODAY! So I'm really looking forward to what tonight might bring : )